Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?
On Tue 20 May 2014 at 12:57:01 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> According to
> https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/servernamesandports.html what you
> require is mail.messagingengine.com port 465 (old-style SSL) or port 587
> (with STARTTLS). You shouldn't need to pretend to be anyone else to send
> your email.
I'd advise port 587 with exim. As you say, the pretence isn't needed.
> For exim,
> http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/
> suggests to set the smarthost to "mail.messagingengine.com::587" (when
> using debconf) and to add a new routing driver. Probably easiest to just
> read that page for the information you require, replacing smtp.gmail.com
> with mail.messagingengine.com as appropriate.
No new routing driver requires adding with either gmail or fastmail.
gmail also accepts authenticated mail on port 25 whereas fastmail
refuses connections on that port.
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